Chicken intestinal epithelial cells were obtained from NEWGAINBIO company. Cells were cultured on 37℃, with 5% CO2, in the Ham’s F-12 Nutrient (DMEM/12) that contained the following supplementations: fetal bovine serum (5%), in-sulin (5 µg/mL), transferrin (5 µg/mL), selenium (5 ng/mL), epidermal growth factor (5 ng/mL) and penicillin-streptomycin (100–100 U/mL) for cell culturing (full DMEM/12).